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From the article: The letter came together in the last two weeks. Eighteen individuals, spread among 11 families, added their names. All are active in progress
by shaki-dora 7y ago
From the article:
The letter came together in the last two weeks. Eighteen individuals, spread among 11 families, added their names. All are active in progressive research and political organizations, some of which are pointedly focused on the swelling gap between the richest Americans and everyone else.
That does sound quite like what you're suggesting, doesn't it?
- SolaceQuantum 7y agoThe language is incredibly vague. Being active in research doesn't mean your donations come with political strings that force people you donate to to champion your causes. Being active in a political organization doesn't mean you're directly funding a team of lobbyists to bribe politicians with fancy dinners and golf and scholarships to their children. It doesn't mean they're making millionares online, funded by their billionare money, to be their mouthpieces on national news the way Fox News has become (NYT Op-Ed might be part of this). "Some of" the 18 individuals means it's unlikely to be a majority (if it was a majority, the NYT would be motivated to use that stronger claim to its benefit). Overall, IMO the claim is so vague, and so without solid, verifiable facts, that it is effectively a smokescreen of pretending-to-be-an-activist.